Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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March 2018

RT @stilgherrian: HEY YOU PEOPLE ESPECIALLY ADELAIDE PEOPLE LAST NIGHT I REMIXED THE PODCAST WELL I GOT A COMPUTER TO REMIX IT AND NOW IT I…

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RT @USFWS: Sparky, the bison that survived a lightning strike in 2013, died this week.

He’ll be missed. In memory of Sparky, the world’s t…

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@RealNickHodge Actually no, you’ve found the full version. Cool.

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@RealNickHodge I think I’ve seen this one, but ta! As you may know, I’ve personally patted the Nike-Hercules. https://t.co/T3fFKeoH4C

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@JanDavisTas I’ve heard similar stories from various nooks and crannies of the sciences. Yum yum yum.

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@NewtonMark You’ll be pleased to know that the cloud base has now risen up here, probably good for a 500ft buzz of… https://t.co/NWlfQDh3rK

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@NewtonMark Nah, sod livetweeting this. I’m getting some work done.

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@NewtonMark Meanwhile, I’m assuming that VH-EQB is for the parachutingpic.twitter.com/cchHoAk1zwzw

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RT @firstdogonmoon: Do you know the difference between a “military grade spork” and a “tactical spork”? No you do not. This information cou…

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I will now be an arsehat and livetweet @NewtonMark’s flight from YGLB to wherever he decides to go next. https://t.co/UQpgzW4uiB

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@NewtonMark @CARROT_app I can read moist of it. CLD ON GND and BKN CU/SC is pretty obvious, as are the times. What… https://t.co/FKgs2jkDvx

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@NewtonMark @CARROT_app Wow, peer group pressure to make me re-teach myself how to read those things. :)

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@NewtonMark It’s stopped burning off up here too, back to how it was an hour ago. I blam@CARROT_apppp for this unpredictable cloud cover.

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@NewtonMark So you did drop into YMIG? Looked for a bit you were descending into YGLB.

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@JustJimWillDo @techoglot @NewtonMark @bunjaree It’s slowly burning off. Give it another hour and Mark could’ve don… https://t.co/KJbnkVxtNV

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@NewtonMark @techoglot @bunjaree You can see from the angle of Mark’s wing where we are in that photopic.twitter.com/W8NRkNJiM4M4

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@NewtonMark @techoglot @bunjaree Yep, I’m looking up into the bottom of that. https://t.co/aQK6nd7m0p

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@NewtonMark @techoglot @bunjaree Good thinking. It’s a long weekend but there’s no sightseeing helicopters at all.

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@NewtonMark @techoglot @bunjaree Yeah, I have no way to measure the cloud base. It’s only just started to burn off,… https://t.co/hlMLyRCiLn

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@techoglot @NewtonMark @bunjaree So, @bunjaree is kinda inside a cloud right now. Stratus clouds at the top, cumulo… https://t.co/8V5NcBtcJs

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@NewtonMark Sadly, it’s still clouded over here at @bunjaree, so we won’t see @NewtonMark fly overhead. I’ll pop ou… https://t.co/WRKyk7QLkm

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@NewtonMark It strikes me that the current climb rate through 5500ft of more than 800fpm is quite adequate.

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abccanberra Pinot noir loving kangaroos tear through vineyard, costing $80,000 ab.co/2GpShW2 pic.twitter.com/5OXlI80mNl

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@NewtonMark But I can see that you’re about to take off, so I’ll go look at the radar now.

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@NewtonMark Thanks, Mark. You’ve reminded me that I’ve forgotten how to read a flight plan, or at least most of it.… https://t.co/RFCMJzdwOi

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@ArmsControlWonk I have the distinct feeling that this @ArmsControlWonk podcast was recorded before the Kim-Xi defi… https://t.co/jCduMIL2Br

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@t_mu @CARROT_app That’s certainly very Brit.

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RT @Pinboard: This sounds like a prog rock album, and I would love to see the cover art for it: https://t.co/3IP8E2YDQ7

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Listening to the latest @ArmsControlWonk podcast “KCN-eh? March’s Other North Korean Developments”… https://t.co/s6gtvkRvlr

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HEY YOU PEOPLE ESPECIALLY ADELAIDE PEOPLE LAST NIGHT I REMIXED THE PODCAST WELL I GOT A COMPUTER TO REMIX IT AND NO… https://t.co/wqZc862Req

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Sat plan, supplemental: Some will doubtless say that I’m not long weekending right, but finishing a few lingering t… https://t.co/pVWPN50zpd

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Sat plan, draft: Slow start with big breakfast (in progress); continue to catch up on podcast listening; a few geek… https://t.co/yQddSMSPhj

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@NewtonMark @CARROT_app I’ll keep an eye out for you o@flightradar2424, though I don’t see a flight plan yet. ;)

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As usual, @CARROT_app has pinpointed a key truth in my life. Also, it looks like it’s an indoor lazy Saturday for m… https://t.co/LeQBEYe1M2

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RT @SatPaper: Dutton’s Home Office faces allegations of cancelling visas “as a punitive and social control response against certain populat…

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@semibogan @jamesrbuk Yep. I encountered Chomsky’s work in both computing science (transformational grammars are st… https://t.co/sSpPZo3r5j

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@semibogan @jamesrbuk I’m explaining this very badly because it’s early on a lazy Saturday and I lack both coffee and underpants right now.

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@semibogan @jamesrbuk Good call. I’m wondering if there’s a cycle here. Figures who become prominent with their ini… https://t.co/drs9B0g4Ah

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I think I used to live in this share house. https://t.co/iDibvXQmYq

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RT @adam_tooze: We are not alone! Striking Nazi poster pointing out that its eugenic legislation followed in footsteps of much of the rest…

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RT @pwnallthethings: Major lack of appreciation in the privacy/tech community that they *lost* the crypto wars against the FBI in 2016 and…

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pwnallthethings I get it. It’s a business decision. But you can’t take the moral high ground at the same time.

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RT @pwnallthethings: CEO of company that removed VPNs and various end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to help Chinese authorities bulk-surv…

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@corduroy @peterwells @kcarruthers I didn’t think we got that many Mexicans up here.

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RT @dj2mn: Has anyone got an MC202? I found something you might be interested in. https://t.co/hq5JYpzgwt

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@peterwells @corduroy @kcarruthers The thing about threaded tweets is that you can read the replies before adding y… https://t.co/FfivVWYxQu

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@peterwells @corduroy @kcarruthers I am disappointed that no one seems to be reading the very next tweets in the th… https://t.co/JorrjVn4tv

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Saturday. The tubes are connected to form a vast coil, filled with a slippery fluid. Saturday.

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RT @kylegriffin1: CREW has filed criminal complaint against Steve Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign and John Bolton’s super P…

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I just bought @THEMONTHLY’s digital subscription ’cos it’s currently 40% off with the code EASTthemonthly.com.au/subscribeGzp4ke

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RT @RichardTuffin: Is Peter Dutton a Nazi?

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@purserj No, but we did talk about yoghurt made from vaginal secretions.

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NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Public House Forum 6 / Hometown Forum” with @ToryShepherd @katie_spain @DrScienceLover… https://t.co/yiiBtec9o6

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Waiting for the cloud to replicate things.

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samdastyari Scully and Mulder have really let themselves go. pic.twitter.com/a8creSLTk2

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RT @FilipTrout: Objects in #BlackMirror are closer than they appear https://t.co/fsKQSYjjUw

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@JonoH See immediately following tweet. ;)

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@DrScienceLover Well the final edit and remix will be online less than two hours from now, so there’s that.

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Nice turn of phrase from @DrScienceLover just now: “Fucking strangers after they’ve been out on the pismetown

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I’ll keep going until the edited and remixed podcast is posted tonight. I’m on a rotown

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@dobes @ashabeeeee No not that. I was just going to say that any 3yo at that event, or indeed any child or youth, i… https://t.co/vmLeZmqcmR

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I’ve just finished editing the first half of the podcast — a bit later than planned, sorry — and I just say that th… https://t.co/3Dw2uOvNWQ

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RT @dobes: @munin @ashabeeeee @stilgherrian I just tried to convince the toddler I live inside a vodka bottle.

Sometimes young minds aren’…

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@dobes @ashabeeeee You’re at blues thingy, are you?

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@natanielruizg @PreetBharara Yes, do give it another try. The discussion is one of the most sensible I’ve heard fro… https://t.co/JKScDn2QaY

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@AditiJuneja3 @PreetBharara Sure, but they are also good reasons to like the show, right?

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@Ford_Prefection @PreetBharara I am so glad that family made that recording available though.

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@NewtonMark Also, it looks a gorgeous day for flying. You continuing on to YWOL today?

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@NewtonMark You’re straying a long way from YPKS there, matey.

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The latest Stay Tuned podcast with @PreetBharara is “Inside the Opioid Crisis” and it’s a hell of a lipca.st/qMw2LEFbQw

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heldavidson .@sunriseon7 is being formally investigated by the communications authority ACMA over its Indigenous child protection panel. Story soon.

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@tom_cowie @Davidramli Maybe young couples could pledge their love as a “ride together through life” by padlocking… https://t.co/8Lq6a4pptn

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RT @TheRegister: It’s been said before, and we’ll say it again.

If SpaceX can put its Falcon and Falcon Heavy prices on its website, you c…

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@inkl Thanks. I may well take up the offer. It relates to some stories I’m writing in the near future.

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pkelso The tension is unbearable @SkyNews pic.twitter.com/sOt9hjL2T6

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“Stawell Gift: How the Antonich twins used a meat pie to stage one of the race’s greatest coups” https://t.co/UkiqMkhLIc

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CillizzaCNN Fact check pic.twitter.com/kP2CU78OgK

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I just went through the Logies voting form and I hadn’t even heard of half of the programs, let alone watched them.… https://t.co/tczXsBehat

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RT @markhumphries: One day left to vote in the Logies if you’re so inclined. As Wendy Harmer once said “Yes, it’s crap television, but it’s…

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@inkl OK, I’m giving @inkl a go for a couple of weeks. This 5-point intro is reassuring, but my now-to-be-standard… https://t.co/fqIsO3w61k

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@inkl I’m just about to create an account. I’ll certainly let you know how it goes after a couple of weeks.

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The name @inkl isn’t ringing a bell, but I’m checking it out now. Thanks, @kyeawhite @rosepowell. https://t.co/9deBXBgeLy

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Fri plan, pseudo-Saturday edition: Big breakfast; laundry (both done); reduce entropy in various ways; listen to po… https://t.co/yGxdO3p7cU

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RT @paulkidd: Clearly @Library_Vic needs to up its game. The LA Public Library is “like Sodom and Gomorrah” according to noted bibliophile…

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RT @MOOMANiBE: The Twitch app’s “you might also like” reccs might be the most damming indictment of the platform I’ve ever seen https://t.c…

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Or, with other recommendations, I don’t want to social it up by seeing what others are reading, or sharing what I’m… https://t.co/b7E0o4MPM1

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Dear Journalists, what’s the name of that paid subscription site which has legitimate syndication of a kazillion news mastheads?

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Better background on the Apple iOS privacy icon screen. https://t.co/GNT1QwfifA

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Oh of course. “Everyone” will be doing this. But the timing does work quite well for Apple, and the wording is inte… https://t.co/dJsdCpAPKh

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I just installed the latest iOS update, this screen was part of the restart sequence. I can’t imagine what might ha… https://t.co/Vt6JaVfNuF

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@pjf Oh. That wasn’t intended to be a pun. Also, googling for “coinwanker” just now took me down a bad rabbit-hole.

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@pjf My pleasure, though somehow it feels like someone must’ve coined it before.

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@mattdasilva Well no, it’s a magazine. It’s no more “news” than Australian Story is news. Neither is pretending to be,

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@mattdasilva “If webby US media startup Vox were acquired by the Chinese Communist Party, it might resemble Sixth T… https://t.co/q00hWHYNjQ

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@mattdasilva I hadn’t known that specifically, but I generally assume that most media from China has a soft propaga… https://t.co/UWKARWmJ88

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“A transport operator in northern China has been accused of running a fleet of empty electric buses to meet require… https://t.co/2fvI1zXJO6

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@ApostrophePong @carolduncan @davidbelcher @voltagex Now that you mention it, yes, I have seen more of those signs… https://t.co/UNV7vWiPgA

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“Energy-Rich Sichuan Demolishes Dams to Protect Parks: Provincial government cracks down on small hydropower projec… https://t.co/3GKRwwtVIc

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@ApostrophePong @carolduncan @davidbelcher @voltagex This will be a rich seam of material! Nice choice.

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Fri plan, draft: Big breakfast; laundry; reduce entropy; listen to podcasts; wine. Some of these activities may be conducted simultaneously.

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@carolduncan @davidbelcher @ApostrophePong @voltagex I took that to be a laundry trolley, though surely all the vin… https://t.co/Ew5u9PUVZV

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@davidbelcher @ApostrophePong @voltagex At one point I was collecting photos of the “furnishings” of men’s bathroom… https://t.co/9M6M7OX9oX

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@davidbelcher @ApostrophePong Have you collected any photos? Maybe I should formally ask you and @voltagex and some… https://t.co/5I5VhMnCZr

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dejcunningham Very disappointing how unimpressed Adam is at the Garden of Eden laid on especially for benefit. pic.twitter.com/qfQGPXVfBa

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RT @mnurkic: G’day @GordyPls, here’s a spicy take for you https://t.co/iEC1gaLrBM

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RT @kylegriffin1: Roseanne Barr now has a 50/50 chance of being the new W.H. Comms Director. https://t.co/Rla3jZJwOW

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JennaGuillaume “I wish there was a Netflix or Spotify for books.”

Library. The thing that you’re looking for is a library.

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@petstarr @ToryShepherd @katie_spain @DrScienceLover @NicholasFryer I might add a “weird science” segment to the re… https://t.co/rlrkqXCFF2

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ddale8 This will surely stand as history’s most amazing conclusion to a presidential address on infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/gbYulSVAoj

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RT @clapifyoulikeme: My fellow Jews, my Muslim siblings, it is time for us to set aside our differences and unite against the true scourge…

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Friday. Today’s metal is zinc. Friday.

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@ChazFH @RVAwonk I know. The Wikiliebers are irrepressible. But I have most of the relevant words muted.

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RT @PPantsdown: Anyway over to you folks for some potato art; here’s the .png & .psd files of the Dutton layer :
https://t.co/ptAzIh7eQV h…

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I don’t know how to break it to him… but… numbers can start with bigger digit than “3”. https://t.co/G0ezCEjiCv https://t.co/G0ezCEjiCv

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RT @RVAwonk: Just to be clear: The Ecuadorian Embassy didn’t just randomly cut off Julian Assange’s internet connection. They did it becaus…

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@DrScienceLover @NicholasFryer @ToryShepherd @katie_spain This is all wonderful. I think. I’ll let you know when th… https://t.co/nh71cdoPVb

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@jonoabroad @NicholasFryer @franksting Thanks. I’ll be editing it on the weekend.

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RT @andrewwhiteau: a colleague called ‘breastscreen nsw’ ‘boobsqueeze nsw’ and i have never been able to unhear it

also check your taters…

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RT @MikeCullen73: Someone just tweeted that 1970 is almost 50 years ago and I went to correct them, because obviously, they’re too stupid t…

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RT @evcricket: day 2 will discuss how collectivism is the answer to the terrible culture of Australian cricket. There will be a 4-hour open…

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RT @evcricket: I really want to dig into the left-right view on the saga. Is ball tampering small government? Does David Warner’s free spee…

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RT @thiscassgirl: Pretty rude of Jesus to shut down bottlos tomorrow just coz you can turn water into wine doesn’t mean the rest of us can…

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I hate your “infographic”.

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3D donut charts are fucked. Don’t make them. Don’t let your colleagues or friends make them. Also, nearly every “in… https://t.co/vEy41t7ugc

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RT @TeaPainUSA: NEWS? This is from the far-right, so take it with a grain of salt, but the whole InfoWars crowd is goin’ apey over the stor…

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@drspacejunk @franksting @NicholasFryer A lot to get out of our systems.

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RT @fryan: Blocked on Weibo this week:

• Xi + Fat (习+胖)
• Xi + Pig (习+猪)
• Kim + Three + Fat (釒+三+胖)
• Kim + Three + Pig (釒+三+猪)
• Kim + T…

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@NuclearAnthro We don’t see enough of the French imagery, in my opinion. They never seem to get “credit” for being… https://t.co/hH16bqbpO9

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@franksting @NicholasFryer @drspacejunk I don’t think it did, actually.

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RT @CSIROnews: #4oclockfact Tattoos aren’t sloughed off with the rest of your dead skin cells because white blood cells in your lymph eat t…

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@NicholasFryer @franksting I also recorded a one-hour interview with @drspacejunk, which will also be posted before Tuesday.

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@NicholasFryer @franksting Two hours, mate. The raw recording is at https://t.co/GJFGkluSGn but I’ll do an edit and… https://t.co/el460wWo5I

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@LoneWolfAniro @Wolfie_Rankin @AuSenate Pretty much. Though UKIP in the UK has struggled on, and AU’s PHON has last… https://t.co/tLEwjody6Z

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@LoneWolfAniro @Wolfie_Rankin @AuSenate They’ll collapse at the next election, I suspect. The internal inconsistenc… https://t.co/sKCpoPXm2S

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@NuclearAnthro Licorne is a beautiful mushroom, you know. The multiple down-drafts on the stem are lovely.

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@LoneWolfAniro @Wolfie_Rankin Nah, they’re the mixed bag of “cross-bench— senators, not in either of the two major… https://t.co/G5P2zEvGLT

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@LoneWolfAniro @Wolfie_Rankin Yeah, you’ll have seen her before. She makes global news from time to time. She’s als… https://t.co/YunDupIdB8

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Well this does make things easier… https://t.co/9aqCrBtqWw

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@johnb78 @JustJimWillDo Yeah this usage of “shelve”? I don’t think it has legs.

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@LoneWolfAniro @Wolfie_Rankin Funny you should say that. That’s Pauline Hanson, leader of the xenophobic nationalis… https://t.co/yLevwBrLs6

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RT @ASPI_org: ‘Gone is a public policy narrative that espouses space as a sanctuary. It has been replaced by a more realist view—where it’s…

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I’ve always thought of it as an invisible watermelon, but yes, it’s a thing. https://t.co/AyqB0CyGtJ

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@Noah_Pology @dull_images Sad but true, I’m afraid. Though we still have some senators who are fun, and at the stat… https://t.co/q5e6knchqI

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@FionaPattenMLC I missed your very clever “cross bench” joke too, didn’t I.

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@FionaPattenMLC Think of it as Senator Leyonhjelm driving a giant dodgem car full of misery.

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@Noah_Pology @dull_images Sadly, they’re part of the Australian Senate.

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World’s worst gospel choirpic.twitter.com/imZxUKgIrNrN

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@jonoabroad Thanks. We did go on and on a bit, but we were having fun.

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RT @alliecoyne: “Pringles’ official chiptocurrency enters ICO phase” give me strength

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@FakeDanTosello @zdnetaustralia @jturner_ibrs “It’s bouncy bouncy all the way down.”

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@zdnetaustralia @jturner_ibrs Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains a bouncy castle, a toddler throwing a sh… https://t.co/uDhM9R3TL6

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